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they have two loads of clover hay, and after 

 that they have as much food as is worth 

 ten or twelve millings. Such are the won- 

 derful effects of water in an hot climate. 



The nth, I got to Pous, part of the way 

 through a hilly country -, but on the river, 

 through a tract of very fine meadows, all 

 watered, and producing vaft crops of hay, 

 at four or five mowings, which they gene- 

 rally admit of, fome have been known to 

 produce fix loads an acre, befides two good 

 feedings. Lucern is a common crop 3 on 

 dry lands they mow it generally every three 

 weeks from May to October, and get three 

 quarters of a load of hay an acre ; but the 

 more common life of it is for feeding cattle 

 with it green ; in which ufe of it they mow 

 one day what will be wanting the next, 

 and laying it of a heap, fprinkle it with 

 fait water. This they think renders it the 

 more wholefome to cattle, and it is certain 

 they like it the better for being falted. One 

 farmer we met with near Olianahad a large 

 field of it, which contained near twenty 

 acres: he had not cattle enough of his own 

 for the confumption of fo much, but let hrs 

 neighbours fend their cattle to his penns, in 



which 



